Thanks Phillip, once common knowledge on the farm, a single flax leaf could hold up 40lbs if you tied it properly.
I wonder just how many noticed that they're taking water with a hand-pump on the bridge?
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Reference Number: APG-0827-1/2-G
The logging locomotive "Sandfly" taking on water at Karekare with a load of sawn timber. The driver is George Snowden (see back of File Print), and Mr H P Knutzen is seated on the timber on the first wagon. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916.